Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the frenzy increasing around the spectacle, Governor Calvin Rampton intervened by staying the execution until the board of pardons can meet this week. The move meant that it will probably be next week at the earliest before Gilmore can get his death wish...
...UTAH GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton not intervened last week, Gary Gilmore would have been executed this past Monday, the first person put to death in the United States since 1967. The Utah Supreme Court had already approved the death sentence in a 4-1 decision last Wednesday, and Utah state prison warden Samuel Smith had begun to accept the names of volunteers for a five-man firing squad. Rampton, however, decided to delay the execution pending a parole board review...
Carmen Cozza, the Eli coach whose record against Harvard is 4-6-1 calls Pagliaro "a great running back. He's in the same class as Dick Jauron and Calvin Hill." Pagliaro has already passed Hill's season scoring mark, notching 15 touchdowns, and is closing in on Dick Jauron's 1971 season of 930 yards...
Grand Rapids is the home of several colleges, including Calvin College, mecca of Christian Reformed scholarship. There are almost more churches than anyone can count (479 Protestant, 42 Catholic and two synagogues). One stanza of a song glorifying Grand Rapids rhapsodizes...
...easy. For 75 years this nation was possessed by what Lord Beaverbrook called "the money brain . . . the supreme brain." Calvin Coolidge updated it by croaking, "The business of America is business." Those notions were set back by the bust of 1929, and Franklin Roosevelt chose to pick up the pieces by assaulting "economic royalists." Since then the rich have once again been a prime political target...